SWF file not playing in dreamweaver

I have an SWF file on my homepage that used to work just fine, now all the sudden it does not work in preview or when I upload it (I have not changed the file in anyway.) I made this site using the design mode because I do not know code. If anyone could look at the code for the flash file below and let me know what is wrong, that would be wonderful!
    <p>
      <object id="FlashID" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="740" height="400">
        <param name="movie" value="media/homepage slideshow/homepage.swf" />
        <param name="quality" value="high" />
        <param name="wmode" value="opaque" />
        <param name="swfversion" value="6.0.65.0" />
        
        <param name="expressinstall" value="Scripts/expressInstall.swf" />
        
        
        <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="media/homepage slideshow/homepage.swf" width="740" height="400">
          
          <param name="quality" value="high" />
          <param name="wmode" value="opaque" />
          <param name="swfversion" value="6.0.65.0" />
          <param name="expressinstall" value="Scripts/expressInstall.swf" />
          
          <div>
            <h4>Content on this page requires a newer version of Adobe Flash Player.</h4>
            <p><a href="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer"><img src="http://www.adobe.com/images/shared/download_buttons/get_flash_player.gif" alt="Get Adobe Flash player" width="112" height="33" /></a></p>

I don't see anything in this file:
http://www.thefuturewavesalon.com/media/homepage%20slideshow/homepage.swf
Incidentally, spaces in folder & filenames should be avoided on the web. You can safely use hyphens - or underscores _ but no spaces or special characters ($#%^&*).
Nancy O.

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It played fine until I updated my site. I therefore suspected a pathing issue within dreamweaver and looked thorugh that forum for an answer.
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The .swf is loading just fine... but it is expecting to load a .flv video file.
The path inside the .swf to the .flv file is not correct. The path inside the .swf to the .flv file needs to be relative to the .swf as it's located on the Web page, NOT the physical location of the .swf.
Here is the absolute address of the .flv:
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Here is a test player using that address:
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"justsoho" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:ftjufb$gut$[email protected]..
> Hi all
>
> currently working on a new website for my design company
and have hit an
> unexpected - and very annoying - problem!
>
> my portfolio graphics are all vector illustrations - I
export them from
there
> as a .swf file - dump them into dreamweaver - and away
we go. all has been
> going fine - my portfolio covers 4 pages - first two
have worked fine -
the
> final two simply will not display when previewed in
browser - or uploaded
via
> ftp to a site area.
>
> the graphics have all been created in similar ways - the
export functions
for
> .swf have not been altered in any way at all - but still
not displaying.
when i
> open up flash player to preview the file - again blank -
when i do the
same
> with the first two .swf files, no issues!!
>
> I have recreated the html files to see if that was the
issue ... to no
avail.
>
> I also dumped the swfs into the 2 html files that are
working fine -
still no
> luck.
>
> tis driving me mad - any ideas guys??? as i said - they
are just vector
logos
> as with the first two pages so not sure what on earth is
happening!
>
> incase this helps with any ideas....
>
> this page as you can see works fine:
>
http://www.justsoho.com.au/test_portfolio.html
>
> this one doesn't! :
http://www.justsoho.com.au/test_portfolio_02.html
>
> hoping someone can shed some light on this!
>
> cheers
> Rebecca
>

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Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 10:50:15 -0700
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Good morning guys.
You can load an external swf file not using URLRequest? Since embed html code is setted as <param value="never" name="allowscriptaccess"/>
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